
Four brilliant minds reinvented philosophy during Europe's turbulent 1920s. This bestseller, translated into thirty languages and winner of prestigious awards, weaves together Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, and Heidegger's intellectual journeys. What revolutionary ideas emerged when war-torn society forced philosophers to reimagine human existence itself?
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March 1929. The Grand Hotel Belvedere in Davos, Switzerland. Ernst Cassirer, 54, sits composed in the second row, white-haired and dignified-the embodiment of philosophical tradition. Then Martin Heidegger arrives in an athletic suit, deliberately snubbing his reserved front-row seat to mingle with students instead. This wasn't just a debate. It was a collision between two incompatible visions of what it means to be human. And it was the culmination of a decade that had seen four brilliant minds-Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, and Cassirer-tear down and rebuild Western philosophy from its foundations. Their ideas still shape how we think about language, existence, and culture today. Tech companies process language using Wittgenstein's insights. Therapists draw on Heidegger's existentialism. Media scholars quote Benjamin. Multiculturalism owes a debt to Cassirer. What happened in those ten years between 1919 and 1929? How did philosophy become magic?
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